Yale University Memorial Site: Notable Deaths & Obituaries

Yale University, founded before the United States achieved independence, is the third-oldest institution of higher learning in the country. The elite Ivy League school boasts the second-largest academic library in the entire world, and counts among its alumni five U.S. Presidents, three sitting Supreme Court Justices, multiple Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winners, and Olympic medalists. This site was created to pay tribute to all the Yalies who've helped make it one of the country's finest institutions.

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Yale Legacies: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Robert Wortman

Robert H. Wortman passed away on July 25, 2015 in Tucson, AZ. He was preceded in death by his parents, Ann and Frank Wortman, his sister, Norma Jean Brodie, his brother-in-law, George Brodie, and his sister-in-law, Rosemary Wortman. Bob was born and raised in Dexter, NM. He graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, attended Yale University in the Traffic and Transportation Planning Year Course and he obtained his PhD from the University of...